SAN ANTONIO - Joseph Sullivan pushed across the winning run with a squeeze bunt in the seventh and Michael Cuevas' two-pitch save ended the game with the bases loaded as the Hooks topped the Missions, 6-5, Sunday afternoon at Wolff Stadium.
In salvaging the finale, Corpus Christi secured a split of the six-game set.
The damage by the Hooks came as two-spots in the third, fifth, and seventh. Trevor Austin, riding a five-game hit streak, and Jason Schiavone combined for five runs scored with each recording three singles.
Along with being hit by a pitch twice, Lucas Spence went 2-for-3 with his first triple of the year and two RBIs.
Sullivan, whose safety squeeze came as the Hooks scored twice in the seventh to snap a 4-4 stalemate, knocked in three runs on the day, including a bases-loaded walk in the third.
Working with a 4-2 edge, Trey Dombroski fell one out shy of qualifying for the win as the Missions mustered three consecutive two-out hits to tie the game.
Railin Perez, Hudson Leach, Ramsey David, Trey McLaughlin, and the San Antonio native Cuevas teamed for 4 1/3 innings of one-run ball in relief of Corpus Christi's southpaw.
The Hooks turned in a number of fine plays in the field. Following a diving catch in right-center in the third, Yamal Encarnacion, Pascanel Ferreras, and Garret Guillemette teamed to cut down Carson Tucker trying to score from second on a sac fly.
Jeron Williams, just being inserted as a defensive replacement in right field, made a spectacular catch while crashing into the fence for the first out of the ninth.